Slumdog Millionaire’sFreida Pinto is joining actors James Franco and John Lithgow in 20th Century Fox’s Planet of the Apes prequel Rise of the Apes.
Directed by Rupert Wyatt, Rise of the Apes follows a scientist’s (Franco) attempt to protect an ape named Caesar from the doctors using him as a test subject in Alzheimer’s research. What follows sets the stage for a simian revolution.
Pinto has been cast as a primatologist. Lithgow will play Franco’s father and Alzheimer’s patient.
The film goes into production this summer in British Columbia.
Pinto is currently wrapping director Tarsem Singh’s (The Cell) swords-and-sandals fantasy Immortals.
As most married men know, it’s not uncommon to see one’s hot wife eventually morph into the kind of chick you’d see during a pan-shot of the Dr. Oz audience. But, what if one’s hot wife actually turned into an even hotter wife?
IFC Midnight has released the first official trailer for French director Marina de Van’s new psychological thriller Don’t Look Back. The film stars Sophie Marceau (Braveheart) as a happily married mother of two who believes she’s changing into an Italian sexpot, played by Monica Bellucci (Matrix Reloaded).
Take a look:
The film’s official synopsis reads:
Jeanne a writer, married, with two children starts to see unsettling changes in her home. Her body is beginning to change. No one around her seems to notice.
Her family dismisses these fears as the result of the stress of having to finish her next book, but Jeanne realizes that something far deeper, far more disturbing is taking place.
A photograph at her mother’s house sends her in search of a woman in Italy. Here, transformed into another woman, RosaMaria, she will discover the strange secret of her true identity.
Don’t Look Back will be available On Demand on June 23.
Bellucci can also be seen this summer in Disney’s fantasy-adventure The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Marceau hasn’t starred in an American film since the 2003 rom-com Alex & Emma.
The Syfy network, known for such outrageous fare as Dinocroc vs. Supergator and Mongolian Death Worm, has got a message for its detractors: Put up or shut up.
The network is teaming up with entertainment website IGN to launch B Movie Mogul, an interactive movie-making site designed to give users the opportunity to create a Syfy original Saturday night creature feature (to be aired next year).
Executive vp of programming Thomas Vitale explains:
We constantly have fans e-mailing with compliments, complaints and questions about our movies, and this is a way of involving the fans in a new way. This is where entertainment is going and just the start of many more things of this nature for Syfy.
Visitors to the site can pitch and vote on various aspects of the film making process, including its title, dialogue, creature design, wardrobe, death scenes, and marketing.
B Movie Mogul launches on Friday, June 25. First order of business will be to decide on one of the following themes: Apocalypse, aliens, or monsters.
